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Thanks JQ for “What I’ve been doing and saying”. “I’ll do my best to keep up the good fight.”
Perhaps JQ, since you’ve “… missed Cory Doctorow’s talk, but I got the chance to meet him and discuss DRM and related issues.” “Ideas Festival”
APRIL 1, 2006
JOHN QUIGGIN
… you might consider joining Cory Doctorow in: “Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it”
“The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
“Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook platform that controls >90% of the audio market. They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library.
“That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any company, let alone a rapacious monopoly …
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“To get my audiobooks into readers’ ears, I pre-sell them on Kickstarter. This has been wildly successful, both financially and as a means of getting other prominent authors to break up with Amazon and use crowdfunding to fill the gap.
“Producing my own audiobooks has been a dream. Working with Skyboat Media, I’ve gotten narrators like Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Neil Gaiman and Stefan Rudnicki
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John Quiggin 
Thanks JQ for “What I’ve been doing and saying”. “I’ll do my best to keep up the good fight.”
Perhaps JQ, since you’ve “… missed Cory Doctorow’s talk, but I got the chance to meet him and discuss DRM and related issues.” “Ideas Festival”
APRIL 1, 2006
JOHN QUIGGIN
… you might consider joining Cory Doctorow in: “Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it”
“The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
“Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook platform that controls >90% of the audio market. They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library.
“That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any company, let alone a rapacious monopoly …
…
“To get my audiobooks into readers’ ears, I pre-sell them on Kickstarter. This has been wildly successful, both financially and as a means of getting other prominent authors to break up with Amazon and use crowdfunding to fill the gap.
“Producing my own audiobooks has been a dream. Working with Skyboat Media, I’ve gotten narrators like Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Neil Gaiman and Stefan Rudnicki
…